This wooden "calculator" helps teach math skills, patterning, and color recognition. Counting and moving the beads on this wooden frame develops a visual and tactile relationship with numbers and early math concepts--but to a child sliding, sorting and counting on this colorful abacus, it just feels like fun!

More Ways to Play and Learn:

Move any number of beads to one side
of the frame. Ask the child to match your "move" on the wire below
yours. This can also be done with a repetitive pattern--arrange the 10 beads in
different groupings (e.g., 3 beads, 1 bead, 3 beads, 1 bead, 2 beads) that the
child has to mimic on the wire below.

Move a certain number of beads to
one side and ask the child to count how many beads you moved and how many
remain on the other side. Or have the child count from one to one hundred as
they move the beads on all ten wires.